Turkish televevion series, based on Sıla who is a young girl was born in a village in Mardin and was raised there until her young childhood.
When her father, Celil, could no longer afford to keep his daughter, he sold Sıla to a wealthy businessman, vowing to retrieve her one day. After a couple of years, Celil told Sıla's mother, Bedar, that Sıla had died. He did this mainly to keep Sıla off of Bedar's mind. Ironically, Sıla's step parents had told the same thing to Sıla about her real parents.
Many years later, Sıla is shown as a full-grown teenager with a boyfriend named Emre in Istanbul. She is living her life at a much higher and wealthier status than her real parents had. Her stepfather is the owner of a large company network, empire as they mention in the show, and lives closely with her step parents on a sea-side villa.
One day, her real brother, Azat, in Mardin fell in love with and married the village's agha's sister, Narin. They tried to run away from the village only to be found and captured by the agha and his men. The village is very strict to their customs, which includes to either kill the runaways, kill the parents of the runaways, or to have the agha marry the runaway's sister. In this case, Azat only has one sister other than Sıla, but she is barely thirteen years of age. Celil refuses to get her married.